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International Journal Of Engineering And Computer Science ISSN:2319-7242
Volume – 5 Issue -03 March, 2016 Page No. 16058-16063
Smart Energy Meter Using Android Application And Gsm Network
Diya Elizabeth Paul , Prof . Alpha Vijayan
B Tech student , Mar Baselios Christian College of Engineering And Technology
Peermade , Idukki Dist,Kerala , pin : 685531 , India
diyaelizabethpaul@gmail.com
Head Of The Department , Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Mar Baselios Christian College of Engineering And Technology
Peermade , Idukki Dist,Kerala , pin : 685531 , India
alphavijayan@gmail.com
Abstract - This is implemented for the purpose of getting a fully automized electricity billing system. This is aim to
measure and monitor the electricty consumed by consumers in a locality and transmitting the consumed power to the
station as well as issuing the bill of consumed power automatically. It is also aims to find the malpractices in the
meter. Using this system the Electricity Board can access all data regarding the consumed power in each home and
in each station whenever required. From the data the Board can find out power theft also it is also offers a system to
charge extra payment for the excess usage of power at peak time (6.00---10.00pm) .Online payment is also possible
for our new system. GSM is using for automating the system. The consumed unit
transmission, alerts and bill
reception are achieved by the GSM module in the client side as set by the user. Server station is also served by a GSM
module for transmission and reception of data .
Index Terms - Meter Reading, Digital Power Meter, Global System Mobile Modem, Short Messaging Service,
Intelligent Power meter Automated, Online Electricity Bill, Android Controlled.
I INTRODUCTION
THE existing meter reading techniques in India was
processed by a meter reading company. This system
either an electronic energy meter or an electro-
will require huge number of workers and long working
mechanical meter is fixed in the premise for measuring
time to achieve the complete area data collection and
the usage. So the meters currently in use are only
billing process. Human workers billing are prone to
capable of recording kWh units. The kWh units used
reading error as sometime the houses electric meter is
then still have to be recorded by meter readers
placed where it isn't easily accessible. Labour billing
monthly, on foot. The recorded data need to be
job is sometime also restricted and slowed down by
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bad weather. Paper billing has the tendency of losing
the reduction of meter re-read, good data accuracy,
in
of
allow frequent reading, improved billing and customer
residential housing and industrial buildings in the
service, more timely energy profiles and usage trends
developing country such as
updates, and better deployment of human resource.
somewhere.
The
increased
development
India require more
human workers and longer working hours to complete
the usage reading task. This in-creases the energy
Smart meters are embedded with different technologies
provider operation costs for meter reading.
and services. They are still evolving and many
governments, organizations and companies are trying
The existing remote auto meter reading technology
generally adopts the wired mode like low voltage
power line, telephone line, etc to form communication
network, but this type of networks has relative limits in
transmission distance and transmission rate.
As
mobile communication technology develops, mobile
terminals popularize, and the level of application
increases, due to the realization of global roaming
networking of GSM network, its GPRS has two very
to establish different standards and policies. Although
we can find many smart meters in market they are lack
of protection , low in
controllability and insignificant data transferring.
Meanwhile they really do not promote the energy
efficiency. This is due to the lack of data provided to
the consumer in
order to take good demand response to achieve high
efficiency and reduce the cost of electricity.
important data services calling and SMS. GSM is a
digital mobile telephony system that digitizes and
The author designed and developed a simple smart
compresses data before sending it. The main advantage
meter prototype that using GSM . The meter takes
of the GSM is its widespread use throughout the world
advantage of the widespread use of the GSM network
and the use of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards
with its SMS capability .
to send short message service (SMS) messages.
Another new technology that smart meters are using is
the Zig-Bee communication. Zig-Bee is a low- cost,
II SYSTEM OVERVIEW
A . EXISTING SYSTEM
low-power, wireless mesh networking standard. It is
best suited for local coverage such as Home Area
Networks (HANs).` Zig-Bee is a key technology for
the
smart
grid
considering
it’s
automated
controllability of appliances, ability to control devices,
and lower installation and upgrade cost. Zig-Bee can
offer meter-to-meter communication and remote
monitoring ability of whole home conditions. In order
to get efficient meter reading, reduce billing error and
operation costs, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)
system play a main role to address the above
mentioned problems. AMR is an effective mean of
data collection that allow substantial saving through
In the existing system , electricity meter reading for
electricity usage and billing is done by human workers
from home to home and building to buildings. This
requires huge number of workers and long working
time to achieve complete area data collection and
billing. Human workers billing are prone to reading
error as sometime the houses electric meter is placed
where it isn't easily accessible. Labour billing job is
sometime also restricted and slowed down by bad
environ-mental condition. Paper billing has the
tendency of losing in the post box. The increased
development of residential hous-ing and industrial
buildings in the developing country such as for
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example, India require more
human workers and
users who are not paid the bill after a fixed time
longer working hours to complete the usage reading
duration and cut their power supply from his office,
task. This in-creases the energy provider operation
without visiting the user’s location.
costs for meter reading.
An android application is also developed for
B . PROPOSED SYSTEM
consumers, consumers can login in this application
using a consumer id and password provided by the
The smart energy meter system consists of one Digital
energy meter and an external circuit for collect the
administrator. Here provided the options for customers
to pay the bill , cut the current etc .
meter reading and communicate with the server, along
with an external hardware circuit. Here a web portal
III IMPLEMENTATION
and an android application is also developed. Meter
readings are passed to the server through the GSM
module connected to the energy meter. The external
circuit also provides an option to cut the power supply
to each consumers from anywhere in the world ,by the
help f a relay control unit connected through the
energy meter section. Relay control unit(RCU) is a
vital part in WAMRS. It provides the useful
functionality of remotely switching the power ON/OFF
to the user. It consists of a protective relay, breaker
control circuit & line breaker. Another feature is theft
detection, which helps to detect unauthorized power
consumption from home or commercial buildings. This
theft detection was done by the help of buffer , this
buffer is a part of the external hardware circuit . By
operating this buffer the relay control unit start
working . Any theft was detected with the help of
GSM user get notifications also it provides an option
of cut the power from anywhere in the world.
An external circuit is connected to the energy meter
for of modifying the current system architecture. Here
using PIC16F877A microcontroller as the major part
of the external circuit. Other components used in this
session are Global System for Mobile (GSM), relay
control unit (RCU), LCD dis-play, and a buzzer. A
pulse is generated from the energy meter after every
unit of consumption. This pulse is given as an input to
the energy meter module, based on this pulse, a count
is incremented and displayed on the LCD display as
units consumed. This count is also transferred to the
mobile application and to energy provider server
through the GSM module that connected to the
external circuit. The communication between the
server, mobile application and the energy meter is
done through the GSM module by Short Message
Service(SMS). If the command for reading current
consumption arrived at the GSM module, the current
value of the unit is send to a fixed mobile number
which will be registered with the meter. We can also
consumption from home or commercial buildings.
In another
side, a web application is provided for
energy providers. In this portal the administrator can
add consumers with therir related details , update the
unit cost for energy, generate monthly bills, send
notifications to consumer for overusage of energy ,bill
payment details etc. The administrator can filter the
cut the power supply by sending SMS to the GSM
module connected with the energy meter from the
same registered number . After receiving the message
for disconnect the power, reconnecting also done with
the help of the same
module. This circuit also
provides alerts about over usage, energy theft. Over
usage is calculated by comparing the usage in a fixed
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time period and theft detection is done by monitoring
the usage after the Theft check button is pressed.
Here an android application is developed for
consumers, so that they can login to it using a
consumer
id
and
password
provided
by
the
administrator. The Consumer can request the meter
readings by simply pressing a button in the android
application. The bill amount to be paid for power
consumption is automatically generated in the App.
The consumer is provided with the facility to remote
disconnect and reconnect to mains. Another feature is
that; the consumer can make the online payment of
electricity bill through the App. With the help of a
GSM module, notifications about over usage at peak
time and detection of any malpractices are also
provided in the android App. The consumer can
Fig : Basic Block Diagram
register complaints and can also cut the power supply
for unwanted time. The users get warnings or
notifications to the consumer about consumption,
payment date etc.
Energy provider side is a web portal where the
administrator can add users, update cost per unit, filter
unpaid users, cut the power supply. The administrator
assigns a user id and pass-word for the user for
accessing the mobile application. The readings from
the energy meter will be updated in the energy
provider server with the help of GSM module. After
generating bills, the admin can see the users with
payment status. If they are not paid, then the
Fig : Energy Meter Module
administrator can disconnect the power supply to the
corresponding user by sending Messages to the energy
meter.
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The system designed reduces the efforts of manual
data collection of energy meter. Also, data which is
received at service provider side is easy to manipulate
for bill generation and other such tasks. With this
system we can collect the reading as well as control the
supply to the user. With addition of software at service
provider side, the customer can be informed of current
meter reading, bill for current cycle, status of the line
and other parameters to the customer with message .
The technology used in energy meter is expand to the
power distribution transformers. So that we can cut the
power supply from anywhere in case of any emergency
or maintenance, find areas with power distribution
failure.
VI CONCLUSION
This smart energy meter system takes the advantage
Fig : Android Application Display Format
of existing GSM network that have full coverage of all
housing and industrial area all over the country which
lead to low implementation cost, and it is simple to
install. The provides reliable, effective and efficient
automatic
IV SYSTEM TEST APPROACH
meter reading, online billing, and
notification through the use of GSM network and
android application, thus reduce human effort in meter
Here use a normal SIM mobile number and a GSM
modem for the demonstration of smart energy meter .
reading and this method is very economical and time
saving.
This smear energy meter is powered up from a socket
outlet and 100W light bulbs are used to monitor the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
user’s power consumption load and the meter capture
the reading. A time period of 5 minute is set as the
over usage cut off
time. Tested the power meter
reading, power disconnecting and reconnecting by the
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of
Prof. Alpha Vijayan for their effort, time and work on
this project which made this publication possible.
android application and payment gateway is tested by
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